9, CASTLE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196134
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 9, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address:: 9, CASTLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196134
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: 9, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 9, CASTLE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 9, CASTLE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 53618 38639

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 CASTLE STREET 669-1/1/53 (North side) 28/11/51 No.9

GV II

House. c1450 with later additions. W half of jettied range, timber-framed and plastered, coved eaves, peg-tiled roof. Plan T-shaped. Street range and rear timber-framed wing with later lean-to addition on E side overlapping with No.11 (qv). 2 storeys and cellar. Front S elevation: continuous jetty with No.9. Details of framing now plastered over. Ground floor rectangular bay window with glazing bars, 1x3, 3x3, 1x3 fixed panes. Street door to E, early C19 plain door-case, 6 panelled door, upper panels glazed. Between door and window, moulded rail and shutter hinge recesses on window frame for folding shutter. First floor, two 2-light sliding sash windows with moulded architraves, 4x3 panes. Rear, N elevation: prominent timber-framed wing, plastered but some principal members visible. 2 red brick stacks, one at N end of wing, one at junction of wing and street range. Ground floor, N end, C20 door with upper glazing 4x4 panes, lower boarding. E side, sliding sash window 4x4 panes on ground and first floor. To E, shorter slate roofed lean-to. Single 2-light casement window in N end wall, glazing bars, 4x3 panes. INTERIOR: ground floor ceiling joists exposed in street range. 2 phases, to E heavy flat-laid with soffit tenons, Roman numeral carpenters' marks. To W, slender re-used joists at right angles to others and of late C17 type. Jowled corner posts on first floor. Framing of rear wing ground floor studs somewhat mixed, shutter groove in middle rail W side. First floor tie-beam with pegs for arched braces. Principal stack at back of street range has narrow C17 bricks where not rebuilt. Ground floor fireplace remade in C20 with late C18 cast-iron surround, eared architrave and Adamesque detail. Cellar retains chute from street and simple rear window.

Listing NGR: TL5361838639

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Legacy System number:: 370432
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.